2023-04-25 21:46:14
On the occasion of the celebration of the 16th World Malaria Day celebrated this April 25 under the theme “it is time to achieve the zero malaria objective: invest, innovate, implement”, the Minister of Public Health, Hygiène et Prévention announced that the Government will soon introduce the vaccine as part of the prevention and fight once morest malaria in the DRC.
Indeed, according to Minister Roger Kamba, this theme is part of investment and research into new treatments, including the vaccine once morest malaria.
“Explicitly stemming from this theme is sustained attention to malaria and the investment of substantial resources in research and new treatments to overcome this endemic disease. The introduction, in the next few days in our country, of the RTS,S vaccine recommended by the WHO in the fight once morest malaria is part of this logic,” says Dr. Kamba.
According to the Minister, this vaccine, whose effects are satisfactory, is cited today as an example of innovation in action and a scientific advance to put an end to this endemic disease in infants and children under five; it significantly reduces malaria-related morbidity and mortality.
“WHO ranked our country, in its 2021 Report on the situation of malaria in the world, with 12% among the six countries in sub-Saharan Africa having recorded 55% of cases globally and with 13.2% among the four countries that have accounted for just over half of the deaths from malaria in the world. As if that were not enough, the DRC is on the blacklist of eight countries where the increase in the mortality rate has increased from 5% to 25%,” reports the minister.
Dr. Kamba adds that the Report of the National Malaria Control Program for 2021 reports more than 21 million cases of malaria, including more than 19 million of simple malaria and 2 million of severe malaria and 22,729 deaths due to this disease. Of this figure, there were more than 10 million cases of malaria in children under five, including 15,297 deaths, or 67%.
In 2022, the Minister continues, there was an upward trend, as the country recorded 27,296,419 cases of malaria, including 13,300,804 cases in children under five and 1,209,537 cases in pregnant women. and mourned 24,880 deaths attributed to malaria alone, including 16,921 children under five, or 68%.
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